Dublin Garda ..... I Heard .....

This is just some uncorroborated shit someone was saying in the pub. I've just checked Goohoo News and can't find any mention of it. But then, maybe it's not being reported? Thinking about it? It probably wouldn't be. But, 'The word on the street is .....'

Dublin Garda (Gardai?) have had enough. I should imagine most Any fucking civilised Police Force has. Ye know the sort of thing; Bring in some sixteen year old 'Hoody' who's just been picked up for 'Joy Riding' some poor cunts family pride and joy to bits, before torching it on some waste land and walking away.

Get him in the Interview Room and it's all spitting on the floor ~ " Om clearin' muh fukkin froat, Inn I?! Any wayy; Yoo karnt tutch me. Om entitled ter ...... "


Ok. Re wind. How about this: They Know this little fucker. They Know it's him. They Know he's untouchable for the life of crime spree he's living.

What do they do? (Allegedly); They pick him up as he slinks down the street, away from the burning motor. They take him to the station. They put him in a cell.

No one takes his finger prints. No one fills out any forms. No Solicitors or 'Social Workers' are called. His parents ....? What ever.

Then, he is confronted by a couple of street seasoned Gards. They give him a fucking good hiding (Blankets and rubber hoses?) and tell him to Stop Being A Cunt! Then he's slung out the back door and left to his own devices.

Now; Tell me that doesn't hold a certain appeal .....

'Pikeys' .... Some More .....

I found this, quite by chance, tonight. It fascinated me and, at the same time, actually went some way to soothing my feelings toward so many of the people I get to hear about.

It was an aside reference to " The Septics Companion " ; A British Slang Dictionary.

I clicked the live link provided, on the forum I found it, and saw, under Random Words; " Glass vb." being described as the action of breaking a glass and then shoving the broken off bottom part into someones face. 'A favoured way of ending a fight between Pikeys.'

" Here we fucking go Again!!! ", I thought to myself. But, then I saw that the word " Pikey n. " was itself a live link. I clicked it. My hackles were up and I was wanting to find out what This idiot was telling the world " Pikey " meant.

I was, I'll admit, greatly surprised and even rather pleased to read this:

" pikey: n adj white trash. It’s an old English word meaning “gipsy,” but nowadays pikey is also applied to people in possession of track suits, Citroen Saxos with eighteen-inch wheels and under-car lighting, and pregnant fifteen-year-old girlfriends. "

I've read and heard worse. I guess it's a matter of syntax, how ye read " is also applied to ". But, fair do's. The guy's moving in the right direction.

The term, " Pikey " is Not a word from the Gypsy languages. It's a derogative term, dreamed up and used by Non Gypsys Against Gypsys. A deliberate and insulting use of term at that.

British (Purpose Built Slum) Council Estate dwelling types ~ ye know the sort of Council Estates I mean. Built to house, and even 'contain' the unemployable under class, rather than those offered to decent, hard working folk ~ Those types have revelled in the, seemingly self given, title of " Chav's ". Now they're known as " Pikeys ".

What ever the origin of the labels, I find it deeply pissing that there remains this constant, inferred connection between that sort and Gypsys. There really Is no connection; Beyond that of a society going to total rat shit, and looking for a scapegoat.